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    <body><![CDATA[Set in 2032 this novel is about the devastating effects of global warming. Joe Benton has just been elected president and finds out that the situation is much worse then previously thought. After successive Republican administrations that have ignored environmental issues, Benton now must address Relocation. Rising sea levels and hurricanes are forcing the government to Relocate millions of people from the gulf coast (and California may become a desert) so this sounds like a really great premise.<br/><br/>I am only a few pages into this novel - I was so excited to read it and so far it is good. The only problem is that I think maybe I'm exhausted with presidential politics right now having obsessively been checking poll numbers, politico, huffingtonpost, chris mathews, etc, etc. for the past 2 years that Obama has been running (really, I didn't even know what to do with myself for a few weeks in November :)<br/><br/>The writing style is very simple and straight forward, so Ultimatum is off to a good start.]]></body>
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